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==History==
In 1612 [[Edward Somerset, 4th Earl of Worcester]], bought from Nicholas Boteler his manors of Great and Little Badminton, called 'Madmintune'{{sic}} in the [[Domesday Book]] while one century earlier the name 'Badimyncgtun' was recorded,{{sfn|Harris|loc=Badminton Guide Book}}<ref>{{cite book |title=A Dictionary of British Place-Names |first=A. D. |last=Mills |publisher=Oxford University Press |year=2003 |isbn=0-19-852758-6}}</ref> held by that family since 1275. Edward Somerset's 3rd son Sir Thomas Somerset modernized the old house in the late 1620s, and built a new T-shaped gabled range. Evidence suggests he also built up on the present north and west fronts. The 3rd Duke of Beaufort adapted Sir Thomas Somerset's house by incorporating his several gabled ranges around the courtyard and extending the old house eastwards to provide a new set of domestic apartments. He raised a grand [[Inigo Jones|Jonesian]] centrepiece on the north front. The two-bay flanking elevations were five storeys high,
== Connections ==
Whether or not the sport of [[badminton]] was re-introduced from [[British India]] or was invented during the hard winter of 1863 by the children of the eighth duke in the Great Hall (where the featherweight shuttlecock would not mar the life-size portraits of horses by [[John Wootton]], as the tradition of the house has it),<ref>Montgomery-Mass and Sykes 1994:219.</ref> it was popularised at the house, hence the sport's name.<ref>{{cite news| url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/other_sports/badminton/4163074.stm | work=BBC News | title=History of badminton | date=21 September 2005}}</ref>
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==Associated buildings==
===Parish church===
Adjacent to Badminton House is the Grade I listed parish church of [[St Michael and All Angels Church, Badminton|St Michael and All Angels]], built in 1785. It serves as the principal burial place of the Somerset family
=== Domestic buildings ===
The following are Grade II* listed:
* the 11-bay [[orangery]] (1711, Thomas Bateman)<ref>{{National Heritage List for England|num=1129313|desc=Orangery|access-date=11 July 2021|fewer-links=yes}}</ref>
* an early 18th century laundry in [[Queen Anne style architecture|Queen Anne style]], now a house<ref>{{National Heritage List for England|num=1129315|desc=Laundry and dairy house|access-date=11 July 2021|fewer-links=yes}}</ref>
* a similar brewery, also now a house<ref>{{National Heritage List for England|num=1129316|desc=Pond Cottage|access-date=11 July 2021|fewer-links=yes}}</ref>
* the servants' wing west of the house, three ranges, late 17th century, altered and extended in the 19th<ref>{{National Heritage List for England|num=1129318|desc=Badminton House Servants Wing|access-date=11 July 2021|fewer-links=yes}}</ref>
===Ragged Castle===
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==See also==
*''[[Badminton Library]]''
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